Dates To Know Flashcards
When was Habeas Corpus made into law?
1679
- When does “EEC” stand for?
- When was it formed?
- European Economic Community
- 1957
- What did the EEC become?
- When did this happen?
- When did the UK join in?
- The EU
- 1993
- Also 1993 (immediately when it was formed)
- When was the N Ireland parliament last suspended?
- When was it reinstated?
- 2002
- 2007
When did the Good Friday agreement happen?
1998
When did the UK leave Iraq?
2009
What year did the Black Death begin?
1348
When was the Statute of Rhuddlan?
1284
When did people begin to make Bronze?
4,000 years ago
When did the Romans leave?
410 BC
When is Agincourt?
1415
When does the English Civil War end?
1646
When is Charles I executed?
1649
When is the restoration
1660
When is the Great Plague under Charles II?
1665
When is the Great Fire of London?
166*
When does Ireland revolt against the Puritans During James I?
1641
When does Charles II die
1685
When is the Battle of Boyne?
1690
When is the Bill of Rights?
1689
When do newspapers leave government control?
1695
When do the first Jews return to London?
1656
When do the Huguenots arrive?
1680 - 1720
When is the first Act of Union?
What does it do?
1707
Unites Scotland with already United Wales and England (Ireland is connected but still a separate country)
When is the first Union Jack flag created?
1606
When does parliament invite George I to be king?
1714
When is Robert Walpole prime minister?
1721-1742
When is the Battle of Culloden?
1745
When does it become illegal to transport slaves on British ships or through ports?
1807
When is slavery completely abolished across the Empire?
1833
under the act of ______ of [year] When is Ireland no longer a separate country?
Act of Union of 1800; goes into effect in 1801
When is the fist curry house?
1810
What law about work happens in the 1840s?
What is the exact year?
Women and children limited to 10hr work day in 1847
The corn law was repealed in _____
1846
During [timespan], ___ million Brits leave the country
- 1853-1913
- 13 million
During [timespan], [number] of Polish and Russian Jews come to the UK to escape persecution
- 1870 - 1914
- 120,000
The Great Exhibition is in [year], and takes place in [place]
- 1851
- Hyde Park
When does Florence Nightingale open her Nursing training hospital?
1861
When is the first Reform Act?
When is the second?
-1832
- 1867
On what TWO dates so women get the right to own their own earnings AND property
- 1870
- 1882
When is the Bedvrige Report released?
1942
When does Emmeline Parkhurst set up the Women’s Franchise League?
1889
When does Emmeline Parkhurst set up Women’s Social & Political Union (WSPU)?
1903
When is the Boer War?
1899-1902
When does Rudyard Kipling win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
1907
When are plans for Home Rule planned for Ireland by the British government?
1916
When is the Easter Uprising in Ireland?
April 1916
When is the Irish Peace Treaty signed?
1921
In 1922, Ireland becomes ______
The Irish Free State
What happens in Ireland in 1949?
It becomes the Republic of Ireland
What year is the NHS established?
1948
What year is R.A. Butler’s Education Act?
1944
In 19___, people from the West Indies are invited to come work in post-war Britain
When is the first radar test?
1935
In what decade is the Turing machine developed?
1939s
When was the structure of DNA discovered?
1953
In what decade was the Jet Engine invented?
Who did it?
What did he do for a living?
1930s
Frank Whittle, an RAF pilot
When was the hovercraft invented?
1950s
- When was the Concorde developed?
- When did it take its first flight?
- When did it retire?
- 1969
- 1976
- 2003
When was the first ATM introduced?
Where was it?
- 1967
- Barclays in Enfield
When was Dolly cloned?
1996
When was the World Wide Web invented?
Dec 25th, 1990
When was the reformation?
1530s
When was the beginnings of rugby?
Early 19thc
When did horse racing begin in Britain?
Roman times
When is the first motor race in Britain?
1902
When is the first film publicly exhibited?
1896
When was the Gian Causwsy formed?
50 million years ago
In what time period (don’t need a specific year) was Edinburgh castle built?
Early Middle Ages
When was punch magazine formed? (Decade)
1840s
When was the first Prom organised by the BBC?
1927
